Montgomery County, New York

Rose explains, “This is quite telling, given that the area has been transformed from fields for agriculture to a robust economic corridor. The tax base now is a lot of residential, but Montgomery County is a rural county in upstate New York where dairy was the major industry.” Obviously, there has been a conscientious effort to drive development to the County, bringing in big ticket employers and companies to fuel the economy. The dairy farms that populated the state, prior, have either been bought up by larger corporations or redeveloped into rural residences. “It is quite peculiar that the residential developments are concentrated on single family properties,” says Rose. “They’re not really subdivisions, but standalone homes on 2-3 acre lots. The majority of the land use, however, is still agricultural.” In that same corridor, water, electric, and gas infrastructure development has been just as large as any other company development. A prime example: transmission lines are a necessary prerequisite for any business, and many infrastructural projects have taken place due